In Jane Austen's perceptive portrayal of the Dashwood sisters, both wounded by love, Elinor is guided by "sense," or logic, while Marianne is guided by her "sensibility," or feelings. Both heroines suffer violent passions when they are separated from the men they love; while impetuous Marianne falls into paroxysms of grief over the ardent but fickle Willoughby, Elinor masks her despair when it appears that her true love is to marry a woman he no longer loves. All ends well in Austen's 1811 comedy of manners, her first published novel, in which it seems that a happy marriage can exist where sense and sensibility meet. This fine imported edition features handsome covers overprinted with flowering branches front and back (with a removable price code label), as well as printed endpapers, a sewn binding in an arched spine, and a ribbon marker.